Wrench



L. W. KEITH.

WRENCH.

APPLICATION man JULY16. 192|.

l 74%7202' @Patented Aug. El, 1922..,

Ail() l i. it a WRENCH.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Ang.. El, i922.

Application led July 3,8, i821. Serial No. 485,20021.

.To all iii/1.0m t 'may concern.'

Be it known that l, Lnwis lV. KEITH., a citizen oit the United States, residing at Greenville. in the county oli Greenville, State olf South Carolina, have invented certain new and uscil'ul improvements in Wrenches; and .l do hereby declare the following to he a. lull7 clear, and exact description oil' the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to nfhioh it `appertains to make and use the saine.

This invention relates to new and useful niiirovenients in wrenches and particularly to socket head wrenches.

One object of the invention is to provide a. wrench which is 'l'orlned from a single length ol material and which includes a. plurality ol" wrench sockets carried hy arms, said serving as handles :tor the other arms, when the socket heads oi? the latter are in play.

Another object is to provide u wrench oi3 'this character which has its socket head offset into parallel relation to the hody oit.l the arin, so that a nut may be reached which liesI behind an intervening part ol" a machine.

Other object-s and atlvaiitages will loe apparent troni the following description when taken in connection with the a(moinlmnying drawing.

ln the drawing:

Figure l is a side elevation ol a wrench inade in accordance with the invention, the socket heads being partly broken away.

.Figure 2 is an end View oli one oi the socket heads. l

Figure 3 is an end View of the other socket head.

Referring particularly to the accompanying drawing, there is shown a metal strip bent to form an angularl Ushaped har with the resulting longer arni l0 the hight ll. and the shorter arni lil. On the outer end oilz the arin l0 there is loiinecl an enlarged head l2, having the angular socket i3 lorined in its outer end, said socket being especially adapted tor engagement with nuts to apply or remove the saine with relation to bolts. The

outer enti o'l the other arin has the head l5 to ined thereon, said head having the socket 'i o i n its outer end and extending in parallel relation to the night ll, and away Vl'roin the infin lil. By reason ot' the length of the arm l() and hight ll, it is eaay Ato reach into a ina.- ehine and readiljl` engage a nut within a .socket and turn the saine onto or oliA from a. holt. rThe sockets are o'lg such depth that the nut will reinain therein7 thus permitting the perator to not only turn the nut troni the holt7 but to withdraw the nut troni the niachine, without the usual inconvenience of the nut drop ping on the Vfloor or ground.

The oil'sct head l5 permits the easy en.- gagenient ot' the head l5 with a. nut which is on a holt disposed behind another machine part, and which would he impossible to reach with the straight shank or aiin. The liact that the socket is deep, permits the ready removal ot vthe nut from the oolt-` without droppiniy the saine. l

Vit will he Vlin-ther noted that arm l() and hight ll. each serves as a handle when one o'l" the l nut.

l"urtherniore. hy reason of the dept-hof the sockets, it is easy to apply a. nut in a part oi" a. machine too deep to reach with the arin and hand et the operator, hy placing the nut within the socket and then passing the tool into the machine and engaging' the nut on the holt.

W hat is claimed is:

wrench comprising a U-shaped. bar having a ,long arin and a short arin, the long arni hating asocia extending 'troni its 'free end7 and the short arin ha ving a socket extending4 t right angles 'troni its Atree end and in a dheetion away 'from the longer arin.

in testimony '\'Jhereof7 Yl aliix my signature, in the presence of two witnesses.

LEWIS lV. KEITH.

leads is in use to apply or reniove a Witnesses JN0. C. HENRY, J. V. TAYLOR.

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